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DLA Piper vice chair takes up strategic role amid US leadership shake up

US head Frank Ryan ushers in latest reshuffle including new position of Advisor to the Chair

18 Jul 2022

Claimant firm taking on BHP in £5bn suit strikes £100m funding deal

Backing from ESG-focused investment firm follows landmark UK Court of Appeal judgment against mining giant

15 Jul 2022

Wachtell and Quinn Emanuel called in as Twitter court battle with Musk looms

Musk's dramatic bid to abort his $44bn takeover is heading for the Delaware Court of Chancery

12 Jul 2022

Pinsent Masons elects leading corporate lawyer as next senior partner

Andrew Masraf to succeed long-serving senior partner Richard Foley in October

11 Jul 2022

KKR hires Simpson Thacher M&A co-head as general counsel

Kathryn King Sudol to succeed US private equity giant’s veteran GC David Sorkin

8 Jul 2022

Pinsent Masons posts 16% hike in PEP against 6% rise in revenue

‘Purpose-led’ growth sees fee income top £530m as PEP reaches £739,000

6 Jul 2022

Withers adds seven new partners in London-focused round

Five move up in the UK capital as firm targets growth in dispute resolution, corporate, finance and IP to serve core client base

5 Jul 2022

Clyde & Co’s £700m merger with BLM goes live

Combination creates UK's 11th largest law firm by revenue and largest casualty insurance team

1 Jul 2022

Baker McKenzie completes 2022 partner promotions with 52-strong international round

Summer tally follows 23 North America appointments in January with the overall proportion of women rising incrementally to 37%

30 Jun 2022

BT announces multi-year expanded partnership with managed legal services provider Factor

Agreement includes increased deployment of ‘empowered negotiators’ with remit to take on more complex work

29 Jun 2022

Eaton promotes new CLO from within as former head departs for Intel

Taras Szmagala takes top legal job after 15 years at the American-Irish power management giant

29 Jun 2022

BCLP secures real estate and insolvency partner quartet in Frankfurt from DLA Piper

German practice grows to 60 lawyers as firm targets further expansion in key market Germany

28 Jun 2022

Star appellate attorneys quit Kirkland after Supreme Court gun victory

Duo to form boutique following Chicago giant’s decision to drop Second Amendment cases

24 Jun 2022

US push helps Kennedys post 8% revenue rise

Global turnover hits £286m for FY2021/22, buoyed by 24% hike in North America

23 Jun 2022

Gett head of legal joins London logistics startup as GC

Chris Fletcher’s hire follows Infinium Logistics launching £500m EV fleet charging real estate fund last month

22 Jun 2022

Squire Patton Boggs launches UK ESG strategy, commits to net-zero carbon emissions by 2035

US firm also pledges to introduce full supplier audit and achieve 25% women partners by 2026

21 Jun 2022

Hogan Lovells and Herbert Smith Freehills act in £5bn London real estate merger

All-share merger of Capco and Shaftesbury one of the largest public M&A deals to be announced this year

20 Jun 2022

Six Flags adds chief legal officer from Sabre six months after axing GC role

Aimee Williams-Ramey joins following 'strategic reorganisation' that saw GC Laura Doerre leave last December

16 Jun 2022

Clifford Chance adds funds partner in Hong Kong from Kirkland & Ellis

Liyong Xing is the third partner to leave Kirkland in Hong Kong since the start of the year

14 Jun 2022

Revenue jumps 19% at Osborne Clarke to €407m as UK PEP nears £800k

Top 25 UK firm hands out 5% profit share to its UK employees along with performance bonuses of up to one quarter of base salary

13 Jun 2022